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nunnery

英 [ˈnʌnəri]

美 [ˈnʌnəri]

n.  女修道院;尼姑庵

复数:nunneries 

BNC.22482 / COCA.29928

同义词辨析

monasteryabbeyconventnunnery【导航词义:修道院,寺院】

monasteryn. 修道院,寺院
〔辨析〕
指修道士、僧侣居住、修道之处。
〔例证〕
There are three hundred monks living in the monastery.
这个修道院里住着300个修道士。
abbeyn. 大修道院,大寺院
〔辨析〕
指带建筑群的大教堂,通常供修道士或修女居住、修道等。
〔例证〕
Have you ever been to Westminster Abbey?
你去过威斯敏斯特教堂吗?
conventn. 女修道院
〔辨析〕
供修女居住、修道等的建筑或建筑群。
〔例证〕
There is a convent nearby.
附近有一所女修道院。
nunneryn. 〈旧〉女修道院,尼姑庵
〔辨析〕
词义同 convent,但现已少用。
〔例证〕
A nunnery is a place where nuns live together.
女修道院是修女们一起居住的地方。
Jane lives in a nunnery.
简住在一座修道院里。

柯林斯词典

  • 女修道院;尼姑庵
    Anunneryis a group of buildings in which a community of nuns live together.

    英英释义

    noun

    • the convent of a community of nuns

      双语例句

      • The ordinary routine of life in a nunnery has always corresponded approximately with that of a monastery.
        普通的日常的生活在一个尼姑庵一直相当于大约与一个修道院。
      • Jeanne's bigoted father takes the baby away from her and has it conveyed to a remote nunnery to be reared by the nuns.
        珍妮固执己见的父亲将小女婴自珍妮那抱走,送至一所遥远的女修道院让修女抚养。
      • She refused marriage and entered a nunnery.
        她拒绝结婚而进女修道院修行。
      • An elderly nomad, wrapped in a cow's hide, appears and points, laughing, to the nunnery high above us.
        一位裹着牛皮的年长牧民现出身来,并指着高处的尼姑庵大笑。
      • So she ran away to join a nunnery, where she met Guru Rinpoche and became his Indian consort.
        因此她逃离皇宫而进入尼院,并于该处遇见莲师且成为其在印度的佛母。
      • With the development of society, these contradictions were intensified to induce the reform of the nunnery.
        随着社会发展,这些矛盾不断激化,最终导致了宗教改革形势下修女院变革运动的爆发。
      • For sixpence a line, I could cause a riot in a nunnery.
        一行台词付我六便士,我能在修道院引起骚动。
      • Ophelia, you are one of these dirty ones, too. Go to a nunnery. Fiona came out last season.
        欧菲莉亚,你也是其中之一。去女修道院,菲奥纳上一季初次参加社交活动。
      • Chin also had a grandmother who lived in a nunnery, but she seldom came home.
        琴有一个住在尼姑庵里不常回家的祖母。
      • There is a nunnery on hill, there is an old nun inside.
        山上有一座尼姑庵,里面住着一个老尼姑。